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From: A natural Anopheles-associated Penicillium chrysogenum enhances mosquito susceptibility to Plasmodium infection

Figure 3

Influence of Pe. chrysogenum culture filtrate on Plasmodium infection.

Measured by oocyst numbers at 7 days after feeding on a P. falciparum gametocyte culture, the mosquito cohort (N = 109) that had been exposed to a fungus culture filtrate-laced sucrose solution and the cohort (N = 120) that had been exposed to a heat-treated fungus culture filtrate-laced sucrose solution for 48 h prior to parasite infection had significantly higher infection levels (P = 0.0067 for filtrate and P = 0.0018 for heat-treated filtrate) when compared to the non-fungus-exposed control cohort (N = 143). Graph represent three independent biological replicates, each dot represents a single midgut and bars represent the median. **P < 0.01; two-tailed Mann-Whitney test.

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